Thanks to the success of The Lion King and War Horse, theatrical puppetry has undergone a radical image transformation over the past
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMCross-dressing acts were not uncommon on the Victorian stage but few were as infamous as Fanny and Stella – Frederick Park and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhat qualities do you need to be a top producer? How do you set about raising the money, and how easy is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAn inspirational drama teacher for four decades, Nina Finburgh has died aged 79. In the mid-1950s, Finburgh trained in speech, drama and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMA popular character actor whose work ranged from TV soaps to the courtier Voltemand in the Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet, Morag Siller has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMNews of the death of Victoria Wood aged 62 was met by a widespread sense of personal loss that bore witness to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMIf anyone were in any doubt about the demand for National Theatre Live broadcasts, the worldwide audience of half a million that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs job descriptions go, ‘fixer’ is not what you’d call enlightening. It could be someone in the building trade, or some dodgy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSuperstitious at the best of times, actors of a certain age have a tendency to seethe and palpitate at the very mention
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSince setting up his own design practice in 2004, David Korins has become one of Broadway’s busiest production designers, whose multifarious company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs if putting on a big-budget musical isn’t tense enough, the prospect of touring a large-scale hit musical to 10 major regional
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMYou might expect an actor who has been appearing in a supporting role in the same West End show for 25 years to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMIn the face of a technological avalanche, how can we ensure that live theatre doesn’t become obsolete? One solution, favoured by the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMRichard Wilson was in his mid-50s when he first played Victor Meldrew, the mischief-making misanthrope of TV’s One Foot in the Grave,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMKnowing I was going to be interviewing Sian Phillips, I dipped into her two-volume autobiography Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001), the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMNot only was she once the highest-paid female entertainer on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s, but for at least
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMJust as Stephen Daldry reinvented An Inspector Calls for a new generation in the early 1990s, director John Dexter changed perceptions of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhile Torbens are probably two-a-penny in Denmark – Betts was named after a Danish tennis player named Torben Ulrich that his mother
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhen a poppy installation took over the Tower of London in 2014, people flocked to see it. Now, its designer Tom Piper
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMHow do you capture the thrill and urgency of live theatre in an inert exhibition space? That was the big question facing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMYou can always rely on Neil McPherson’s adventurous Finborough Theatre to pull an unexpected rabbit out of the hat. Nobody, not even
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYou couldn’t wish for a more charming or amenable interviewee than Janie Dee. She talks openly and interestingly about her youthful passion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHeartening news for those who fear that our culture is being systematically dumbed down by mindless celebrity worship and an endless diet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYet another crop of outstanding young designers has been anointed by the prestigious Linbury Prize for Stage Design, the biennial competition for design
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe dilemma of the older actor – and this applies especially to women – is that as soon as you feel you’ve
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIf the Royal Court staged a revolution in British theatre in the 1950s, Jocelyn Herbert was a frontline activist, manning the barricades
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMThe Technical Theatre Awards were established to celebrate the achievements of people working behind the scenes. Eighteen categories cover all disciplines of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhen Jack Tripp became the first ever actor to be awarded the MBE for services to pantomime in 1996, some wag suggested
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAdam Kenwright is a man with a mission. At 43, the theatre world’s top marketing guru doesn’t simply want to keep his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMLike the best magicians, a good ventriloquist can transport us back to our childhoods. Watching the masterly Paul Zerdin at work in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIf you could bottle Roy Hudd’s energy and sell it over the counter, we’d all live to be 120. Interviewing the convivial
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